Jun 8, 2018

Ahh yes i got blocked in Canada lmfao

May upload it on vimeo as well

 

Jun 9, 2018

new link

 

Jun 9, 2018

Prob the most interesting thing you've done yet. @Vahn

Music feels like a crutch though tbh.

 

Jun 9, 2018

Music is the most important in things like this i wanna celebrate the grimes music thats all.

thx for the words m8

think ull dig the film

 

Jun 9, 2018

Lol, Grimes is dating Elon Music and took "anti-imperialist" out of her Twitter bio. She's gonna be a Silicon Valley bro in 6 months.

I'll check it out sometime. Lots of fights to watch tonight.

 

Jun 14, 2018

two films i want to recommend/want to talk about:

a. rewatched Wonder Boys last week. It's on Amazon, I believe. Wonderful, rich movie. Grady would've been a great part for Paul Newman 15-20 years earlier imo. I mean, this is a movie that's about the creative writing process, nurturing talent... and casts (a very attractive!) frances mcdormand as the love interest. at one point around the table in a scene you have: the original spiderman, iron man and the original ant man. and katie holmes sooo peak. anyway:

b. A Perfect World is on HBOgo. Eastwood's follow up to Unforgiven, starring post-Dances With Wolves Kevin Costner, and same-year-as-JurassicPark Laura Dern. Rly interesting companion film to Unforgiven, as well as also 1993 In the Line of Fire. There's some.... eccentricities that are a little troubling in 2018, but overall thought it was a punchy, yet thoughtful rumination on human nature, lost childhood and violence. I'm not too familiar with Eastwood's directorial work pre-Bird, but d--- feels like he hit a stride around here.

@Twan

 

Jun 17, 2018

I haven't seen Wonder Boys, but A Perfect World is great. I agree with you about Eastwood hitting a stride here, as Bird, Unforgiven, A Perfect World, and The Bridges Madison of Country are all at the top for me in Eastwood's filmography as a director. White Hunter Black Heart from this period is also really interesting, because it too wrestles with archetypes of masculinity that Eastwood himself embodied earlier in his career.

As for his earlier directorial work, I'd highly recommend High Plains Drifter, a pitch-black western that surprised me in just how dark it gets, especially given the sentimentality that's generally present in his post-2000s work.

 

Jun 17, 2018

Nice to hear there are Eastwood movies worth watching. I tried The Eiger Sanction about a year ago, and it was painful.

 

Jun 17, 2018

Never even heard of this lol. Did he direct..it?

True great thots. When you say sentimental are you talking about Mystic River/Million Dollar Baby? Not sure that’s the adjective I’d pick so curious.

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Also @Big Cuntry is going to banner this but FYI https://www.thedailybeast.com/jay-m...out-of-life-is-more-at-bats?ref=wrap?ref=wrap

 

Jun 17, 2018

Yep, based on some airport thriller. Def trying for an American James Bond thing. Imagine Cliffhanger or Indiana Jones with Squintwood being a suave womanizer.

 

Jun 17, 2018

That's kind of what I had in mind. Maybe not "sentimental". Perhaps earnestness that teeters on corny (Gran Torino, Invictus) or just full-blown corny (Hereafter, 15:17 to Paris).

 

Jun 17, 2018

Right there’s something more soulful/thoughtful or sad about some of his earlier stuff. Then again, the guy is almost 90 lol

 

Jul 21, 2018

I went to see Sorry To Bother You tonight.
Really creative and charming, but it tries to throw everything and the kitchen sink at the screen just to see what sticks. There's enough visual inventiveness and successful quirkiness that the movie never quite derails, but it definitely comes close. The only thing keeping the film from absolute chaos is Boots Riley's direction, which feels like a strange combination of Edgar Wright's sensibilities mixed with early career Spike Lee. An enjoyable mess of a movie that I still can't decide if I really liked.

 

Jul 21, 2018

Well said! I saw it last night too. My thoughts are generally similar to yours, but I'm firmly in the "liked it" camp with some reservations. It has an anarchic, anything-goes vibe that I really enjoyed, and I think it hits more often than it misses as a satire.

 

Jul 22, 2018

Good post. I believe @WPG is a proponent

 

Jul 22, 2018

Yeah, just one day of having digested it and my feelings are already more positive than they were. There's a lot of things to criticize but the atmosphere just works so well I almost don't want to. lol

People comparing this to Get Out is gonna hurt audience reception though. "Wow another genre movie about race relations in America - It's 2018's Get Out!!" yeah no. They're nothing alike.

 

Sep 2, 2018

Heading off to the city to see 2001 in IMAX. Never get to see anything like this, feeling a hardcore vibe right now.

Few notes:

- Six people walked out during the Stargate scene.
- Old mom's around me were bored, but clearly interested and with it because of their partner's clear love for it.
- The guy behind me "hadn't seen" this version and that it was a lot longer, even though it's like the only version in existence and only seconds separate the possible versions he could have seen. His girlfriend was bored so he playin' defense.
- 15 minute intermission! Yay.
- The picture quality was so crisp to the point where I spent most of the movie looking at random parts of the frame since my entire vision was engulfed. Seeing the pores on people's faces, practically individual pixels in stationary objects - it was unbelievable. Stargate sequence was the most visually stimulating thing I've ever seen, was vibrating at the end of the movie and the entire Beyond the Infinite sequence went by in what felt like minutes after the intermission.

One thing I picked up on that I never could have on home video - there are some orange/blood red desert shots at the beginning of the movie which if you saw it for the first time today would make you think of the new Blade Runner. When we start getting the close-ups of Hal's eye later in the film, it looks like those desert shots digitalized. His pupil is the sun, and the outer circles make up the backdrop of the sky. Another case of something in Dawn of Man mirroring what we see in space, which almost never stops.

I've also come to the conclusion that this movie is definitely about or at least finishes on the idea of Nietzsche's Übermensch. Ape to man, man makes machine, machines take man to the super-man. Works for me.

 

Sep 6, 2018

RIP burt reynolds:
http://moviemezzanine.com/burt-reynolds-clint-eastwood-essay/

 

Sep 10, 2018

@Worm